Senate Republicans to House Republicans: Pass the Damn Payroll Tax Cut Bill /
So remember the Payroll Tax Cut we’ve been yapping about? The one that the President and Democrats having been urging Congress to pass, so that middle class families are not subjected to a $1,000 tax increase on Jan. 1. Well, the President and Democrats just got a new ally—Senate Republicans! Yesterday, John McCain (R-AZ), along with his Republicans friends in the U.S. Senate, called on Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) to whip his House Republicans in order and pass the damn payroll tax compromise that passed with overwhelming bipartisan support in the Senate. The tax compromise would extend the tax cut for two months. Boehner refused—or at least his House Republicans did. On yesterday, Maryland representative Steny Hoyer attempted to bring the tax cut bill, passed by the Senate, to the floor of the House of Representatives for a vote. Watch the Republican majority walk clean off the floor of the House when Mr. Hoyer brings up the bill:
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